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WASHINGTON — A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.The bill would extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it, crack down on insura (Read More)
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Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), reaffirmed on Sunday that he will support a Republican filibuster of any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance option.Appearing on the "Meet the Press," the Connecticut independent said that neither he, nor anybody else believed the current version of legislation will (Read More)
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RENO, Nev. � Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as inhumane and unnecessary.The Grammy Award-winning singer has asked President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to scrap a proposed roundup of 2,500 mustangs in northern (Read More)
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Give it up for Ragtime, a sweeping, ambitious revival that, with the election of Barack Obama, carries added resonance. The musical, an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel about early 20th-century America, is moving, stirring and not to be missed. Real historic figures, like anarchist Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nes (Read More)
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However, we work hard, with a lot of enthusiasm and hope, because we know that the political leaders of tomorrow stand among the thousands of Cubans who read us, and among the millions who will one day be free. Perhaps they may be cleaner and more self-assured, perhaps more laborious, but, above all, I'd like to think that (Read More)
Drudge Report:
Obama administration officials and their Congressional allies are stepping up overtures to Maine's moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, in an effort to pass the health care reform bill. "I have ruled out voting for this bill but I still very much want to vote for a bill and that is why I am continu (Read More)
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.It said the five-day drill will cover an area a third of the size of Iran and spread across (Read More)
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WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated – beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Gre (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
Dear Associated Press,Holy Joe Lieberman is a man of many parts.He is a sleazebag, a warmongering Neocon, a sanctimonious backstabber, "Armageddon" John Hagee's "Zionists bring the Second Coming" Reacharound Buddy, a serial betrayer of the leaders of the Democratic Party, ...and many other things which could not be could n (Read More)
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The United States will make $1.3 billion available for a program that rewards Afghanistan's anti-Taliban militias with development money for fighting against the Taliban, according to officials quoted in The Guardian.The program, known as Community Defense Initiative, is already in place in 14 areas of Afghanistan. CDI is o (Read More)
BBC:
What kind of technology does the modern multimedia reporter need to master - and where is the boundary these days between the professionals and amateurs? Two questions I've been debating over the last couple of weeks with journalism students at the Cardiff School of Journalism, and with colleagues from other broadcasting or (Read More)
National Review Online:
Bill Burck, former federal prosecutor in New York City and deputy counsel to Pres. George W. Bush, warns about the coming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and what the administration can do about it in an interview with National Review Online’s Kathryn Lopez. KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Can the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial possibly (Read More)
National Review Online:
‘You don’t have to hit us in the head with a baseball bat too many times,” says Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, “before we start to think you’re doing it on purpose.” And so Governor Perry has a question for the Obama administration: Why ship thousands and thousands of illegal aliens from places as far away as San Diego, Calif., (Read More)
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Gordon Brown and David Cameron have apologised after claims they used an Armistice Day service as a photo opportunity. (Read More)
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New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman is worried that America is producing "sub-optimal solutions" to big problems like global warming, an education system in decline and a weak economy.The author of Hot, Flat, Crowded appeared on The Charlie Rose Show on Friday night to discuss President Obama's recent trip to Asia, (Read More)